Bill Text: IL HB0386 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning employee rights.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0386 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB0386-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB0386 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
115 ILCS 5/3 from Ch. 48, par. 1703
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning employee rights.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act is
amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
(115 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 1703)
Sec. 3. Employee rights. (a) It shall be lawful for
educational employees to organize, form, join, or assist in
employee organizations or engage in lawful concerted
activities for the the purpose of collective bargaining or
other mutual aid and protection or bargain collectively through
representatives of their own free choice and, except as
provided in Section 11, such employees shall also have the
right to refrain from any or all such activities.
(b) Representatives selected by educational employees in a
unit appropriate for collective bargaining purposes shall be
the exclusive representative of all the employees in such unit
to bargain on wages, hours, terms and conditions of employment.
However, any individual employee or a group of employees may at
any time present grievances to their employer and have them
adjusted without the intervention of the bargaining
representative as long as the adjustment is not inconsistent
with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement then in

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effect, provided that the bargaining representative has been
given an opportunity to be present at such adjustment.
(Source: P.A. 83-1014.)